I was standing up for this guy recently, arguing that having a donation page is fine. However, this goes way beyond donations and feels more like a sale.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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Eh, it's his code, his work. I believe he's within his rights to decide how he's compensated.
I personally think this method is a bad idea but then again I don't pay this game and don't even know what the mod does. Maybe it's the second coming or whatever and he knows his business more than I though. Either way, it's his right.
Not really. Modding is allowed, but as soon as you start making money over a game you don't own I expect Rocktar is gonna cease an desist him into oblivion. Yeah, it's his code... but without the game is useless. Donations are a thing, selling something you don't own the right to is another. Be aware, I don't want anything to do with that mod and I don't even know whst it is tbh
It's fine, I'm sure Rockstar isn't very litigious.
That has to be illegal right? Like building a mod for a game is fine but if you charge people for the mod for that game its illegal in most cases. This is effectively that.
Nope. His mods are his own code, and he has the right to sell it. I don't agree with what they're doing, but that's a separate conversation.
Unfortuantly his code doesn't act independently of its own accord or through software that has permission either. Unless he has a deal with Rockstar (doubtful) they can claim this as a violation.
Heavily depends on how the mod interacts with the game. If it does not use anything that's from the game, selling stuff becomes against ToS at the best and illegal at the worst
While it may not use any assets from the game, it sure as hell uses asstes from Nvidia (?) that are required to enable DLSS3. But I don't know how they are licensed and if a sale is allowed...
Ratlobber created a video on a Gmod mod that when pirated would leak your IP address. Kind of reminds me a bit of that.
I would link his video explaining and going over it I knew which one it was but his titles and actual descriptions are not very descriptive so I don't know which one it was.
Edit: Nevermind here's a link to the video
Oh and Rockstar partnering with cfx.re (the team behind FiveM and RedM). I feel like that'll mean more DRM in their work.
Fuck Rockstar. They took my money and I'm still unable to play RDR2.